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Hello, my name is Maria Maddalena Erman 
and I’m going to present a very original

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experience: the Origami Orchestra, 
an interdisciplinary and creative 

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path that uses exclusively a common, 
easy to find and easy to use material: paper.

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The idea originated from a practical 
need identified on the field during a project 

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promoted by 
the Municipality of Naples addressed 

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to a network of schools and non-profit 
associations, with the aim to recover

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minors at risk and prevent school dropout.
Working with particularly needy minors

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and sometimes in unusual places, 
such as parks and gardens, we had 

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the need to involve the participants 
in making music, while assuring a 

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safe environment. We had already 
noticed that 

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traditional instruments, such as
maracas, 

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tambourines and claves, not only

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were not very practical to transport,

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but were also potentially
dangerous weapons.

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Therefore, we had to come up
with an alternative. 

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This path was developed by C.I.D.M. (Centre 
for Musical Educational Initiatives) 

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NaturalMenteMusica,
on the basis of a research that I coordinated,

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which led to the realization of a musical 
educational path entirely based on the use of paper.

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The path resulted to be in line with

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the objective because inexpensive, safe and
easy to access. 

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Active participation was promoted
in all four steps in which the 

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path was organized: the timbre-acoustic
experimentation of the material used,

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allowing to 
explore the different sounds that 

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can be produced with a piece
of paper (step 1); 

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the use of such sounds for the production of ostinatos and short
musical compositions (step 2);

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the individual construction and hand-making 
of a musical instrument with

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a simple piece of paper, which is first of all
folded (step 3), 

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and then used in a performance, that is the performance of the
Origami Orchestra (step 4). 

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What is the Origami Orchestra? 
It is a set of musical instruments made only of

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paper.  To date, we have about
fifteen instruments. 

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It is a set of instruments
extremely flexible, very very light,

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transportable, super cheap, that can be
used in any moment, in any

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context and in any place, both
individually and in group. 

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The instruments are simple, comprehensible,
easy to reproduce and realize on one’s own,

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requiring choices and considerations, 
and are safe to use even in the presence of aggressive behaviors.

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In fact, the Origami Orchestra allowed us
to use the time available in a positive way, 

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to communicate and make music even in the
most diverse situations. 

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Its realization
combines the ancient Japanese art

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of origami, that is of paper folding,
with the final objective to

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construct musical instruments,  
starting from the renowned golden 
rectangle,

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which is a very common A4 piece of paper, 
but

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using even A3 or A5 pieces of paper,

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following procedures, diagrams and

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technical sheets, drawn up, collected and
developed by Francesco Nocerino, a

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musicologist, musician, scholar of musical 
instruments, origami expert, author of the

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Origami Orchestra and president of C.I.D.M. NaturalMenteMusica.